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Axle Grease & Antiquities. But a visitor to Rome can still drive into the Eternal City along the serviceable roadbed of the old Appian Way, now called "Appia Antica" to distinguish it from a more up-to-date Appian Way running in the same direction. The 20th century, like those that preceded it, has left its mark on the ancient road. Rome's busy Ciampino airport lies only 200-odd yards away. Near a group of ancient Roman tombs, Actress Silvana Mangano has built herself a spanking new Hollywood-type villa, complete with swimming pool. Across the way from...
...desecrations, Antonio Cederna, a young art critic, last year sounded off in the respected Il Mondo, decrying alike the government, the public and the "gangsters of the Appia"-all those, in short, who permitted or perpetrated the outrages along the ancient highway. Cederna's plan for restoring Appia Antica to its pristine beauty was simple and forthright: tear down every vestige of hideous modernity...
...than-average Italian films. But the higher, she goes, the harder Gina has to work. She and Mirko have formed three corporations to handle her career and investments, and they have permitted themselves only two extravagances: a glaring red Lancia Aurelia and a pink stucco villa on Via Appia Antica, right next door to the place where the Empress Poppaea used to take her daily bath in the milk of 300 asses. They have planted 300 trees on the grounds, laid out broad English lawns, strewn the area with ancient paving stones and 3rd century sarcophagi. As she surveys these...
...work of driving insistence that makes full use of the harpsichord's jangling, percussive qualities; Virgil Thomson's Sonata No. 4, a neatly drawn portrait in sound (of Art Patron Peggy Guggenheim) composed in an enigmatically old-fashioned style * and Vittorio Rieti's Sonata all' Antica...